County Riverside Tlma

County of Riverside Transportation and Land Management Agency (TLMA) - Aviation Division, a U.S. local government entity and county agency based in Riverside, California, receives federal grants exclusively from the Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Western Pacific Region to design, rehabilitate, and upgrade airport infrastructure across Riverside County's airport system.

The Aviation Division operates as a recipient of federal project and formula grants under the Airport Improvement Program (CFDA 20.106) and Airport Infrastructure Grants program (CFDA 20.117), with no federal contract prime awards or subcontract work in the source data. All thirty grants in the portfolio derive from the FAA Western Pacific Region, representing 97% of activity and 100% of customer concentration by agency. The combined obligated value across all awards reaches $40.1 million, though the stated combined potential value carries an anomaly in the source data that does not reflect actual award magnitudes.

Recent grant work spans runway rehabilitation, apron pavement reconstruction, taxiway and taxilane repairs, precision approach path indicator installation, airfield lighting systems, guidance signage, and design-phase work for a new FAA contract tower. Representative awards include an $8.578 million Airport Improvement Program grant awarded August 20, 2026, to rehabilitate 4,300 feet of Runway 5/23 at Hemet-Ryan Airport (completion August 19, 2030); a $4.27 million formula grant awarded September 18, 2025, to rehabilitate 120,405 square yards of apron pavement across multiple Riverside County airport aprons (completion September 17, 2029); a $3.873 million formula grant awarded September 18, 2025, to rehabilitate 41,115 square yards of apron pavement at Hemet (completion September 17, 2029); and a $1.656 million Airport Improvement Program grant awarded August 20, 2026, to design a new FAA contract tower and acquire equipment for Palm Springs-area airports (completion August 19, 2030). Smaller awards fund Phase 1 design work for apron lighting and perimeter fencing at Blythe Airport ($250 thousand, September 2024) and precision approach path indicator and runway lighting rehabilitation at Palm Springs airports.

Activity has accelerated in the past two years—three awards in 2025 and four in 2026—following a lower-frequency pattern in 2022–2024. Two awards carry ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months, exposing minimal near-term recompete activity. All work is performed in Riverside County, California, with specific performance locations including Hemet, Palm Springs, Blythe, Murrieta, and unspecified county-wide airport facilities.